Dienstag, 31. Januar 2017

On their latest Newsletter Rick and Maria introduced a new series of "Kitchen table videos" (Isn't it a great name, sounds so homely...)

In the first video Rick wove Diva Dance into Paradox - I was so impressed that I tried it still the same day! Rick's original was so perfect that it was hard to meet the own expectations :-)

When I saw that the DIVA Challenge this week has exactly the same topic (and refers to the video) I decided to give it another try.

I used a Zendala tile and tried to wave DivaDance as a spiral into Paradox. It worked!! Some things went different as I intended, but honestly: I love the result!

By the way, this was my first try when I saw Ricks video:

I continued to work on my Zentangle calendar.

The last three days I drew "8's" by Jane Eileen Malone , "WELL (Original Zentangle) and a new tangle by Ria Mattheussen "L'Eaura". She describes on her blog, how she created this wonderful tangle. Isn't it lovely?

Last but not least I created a tile playing a bit with "WELL" and after some weeks without using colour I couls not resist to use a bright red.
It makes good mood and I need it as I have a huge cold and do not feel very WELL ;-)

Sonntag, 29. Januar 2017

For IAST #181 Adele chose the tangle "Zen Bud" as string. It should be filled with the tangles "Puf" (by Carole Ohl), "Florz" (Zentangle) and "Pozer" (Beth Snoderly).
This challenge was very interesting for me, as Florz and Puf are grid based tangles and the string was very "curvy". I decided to use a black tile today. The rose colored gelly roll has not the effect as I intended, but that doesn`t matter.
Here is the result:

Yesterday I drew the tile for Annettes TangleMosaicProject#6 - I had a lot of fun with it.
I love it, how Annette prepares strings and instrctions and how she makes lovely mosaics with all contributions. I am looking forward to seeing the final result !

Last not least I show you some new pages of my tangle calendar 2017.
My decision is to create monotangles of patterns which I have not used yet, every day one.

Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2017

Your blog with the weekly challenge and your reports about the life with your family , your beautiful boys... is so inspiring and encouraging for me and all of your blog readers! Thank you for that, thank you for your work and sharing your art with us.

I am looking forward to find your blogpost every monday and try not to miss any challenge. My first one was #209 and I counted my contributions up to today: It were 87. So is it possible? I missed only four (5) challenges during almost two years!

You can be very proud of it, and I am, too!

Thank you as well for your efforts to raise the awareness for the Moebius Syndrom. I read about it one year ago on your blog and I have created another contibution yesterday.

I drew two 3z tiles and found two different combinations of them which I like both.

I am so sorry that my English is not sufficient enough to express all my feelings, but I hope you will understand what I like to say. (write;-)

I wish you all the best, health and happiness for your family, especially Artoo who is such a brave and sweet boy!

For IAST Adele Bruno chose some wonderful tangles this week combined with a very graphic string.
I decided to draw a Renaissance tile, just to have some more colour dimensions.
The tangles are Paradox (Rick Roberts), Fassett(Lynn Mead CZT) and Trimonds (Jane Monk CZT).
I love all of them!

Two weeks ago I spent a lovely weekend in Berlin. Sabrina Stein CZT invited me and two other German CZT (Cora and Anya) to join her New Years event of Zentangle together with about twenty
Zentangle addicted ladies.Sabrina reported about it on her blog

We gave a little Zentangle class and had lots of fun together.
Cora, Anya and me tought a tile with our own tangles "Falme" (Cora Titz) , "Metroz" by Anya Ipsen and my "MySwing".
The results were stunning!

me in front of the Reichstag in Berlin

from left: Simone (me) , Sabrina (in the front), Anya and Cora

You are such wonderful ladies!!

Thank you so much Sabrina, I will never forget this wonderful weekend!!

Freitag, 6. Januar 2017

What a surprise for me this week:: When I checked the challenge for this week`s IAST I found my tangle MySwing was chosen! What a surprise... I am so excited and I am lookoing forward to see all the contributions to this challenge !
The combination with the two other tangles Zonked (by Barbara Finwall) and Panthe (by Nancy Newlin) is beautiful as the straight lines give a good contrast to the swings.

Thank you so much Adele, for this challenge. I am so proud that you chose MySwing.
Have a great New Year!

Wow, I just found that Adele drew som "Tips for tangling MySwing" on her blog! It is so beautiful... Thank you so much, I LOVE it. And I hope it helps to understand MySwing some more.